In his book, The Healing Code, Alexander Loyd, Ph.D., N.D., shares an incredible breathing exercise he calls "Instant Impact." This exercise offers the benefits of 30-60 minutes of either vigorous exercise, deep yogic breathing, or meditation—and it takes just 10 seconds.

Instant Impact can be done any time you feel you need it, however, Loyd recommends going through the following 4-step series at least 3 times a day:

Rate your stress. When you begin using Instant Impact, focus on the overall level of stress that you are feeling that day or that moment. How intense is it? How strong is it? How much is it affecting the way you feel? The way you relate to others? The way you see the world? Do you feel it anywhere in your body?

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside heaven you can be perfectly safe from all dangers and perturbations of love is hell." - C.S. Lewis